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1892/12/15
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
to James J. Meyers re: support of Henry Cabot Lodge for Civil Service reform, &c
With TR's autograph pen corrections on p. 2. On stationery of the United States Civil Service Commission.
GLC06622.01
1892/12/28
to James J. Meyers re: detailing Lodge's support for Civil Service reform
With TR's autograph pen corrections on both pages. On stationery of the United States Civil Service Commission.
GLC06622.02
5 July 1852
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Oration delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester
First Edition by Lee, Mann & Co. Douglass' famous fourth of July oration, given on the fifth. Douglass was asked by the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society to give the oration on the fourth, choosing the topic "the meaning of the Fourth to the...
GLC06829
14 November 1890
to Mr. Johnson re: work on civil service reform
Written as Civil Service Commissioner
GLC03339
23 February 1924
Wadsworth, James Wolcott, Jr. (1877-1952)
to Oliver K. Hand
Thanks Hand, a New York City lawyer, for a letter received 21 February. Writes "Naturally I am glad to know that you and I are so nearly in agreement with reference to the constitutional amendment which I have been pressing, and the education bill....
GLC03481.29
1869/05/19
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885)
Affix the seal to the proclomation concerning the eight hours law
Affix the seal to the proclomation creating eight hour work day.
GLC07998
12 September 1850
Quincy, Edmund (1808-1877)
National Anti-Slavery Standard. [Vol. 11, no. 16, whole no. 536 (September 12, 1850)]
With previous owner's signature (John Russell) signed along right margin of first page. Contains the "Speech of Mr. Brooks on the Wilmot Proviso," articles on the slave trade in Washington, D.C. and the Texas Boundary Bill, and miscellaneous other...
GLC08875.31
1910
Lincoln Said Women Should Vote
Washington woman suffrage poster, featuring Abraham Lincoln's quote, "I go for all sharing the priviledges of government who assist in bearing its burdens, by no means excluding women."
GLC09103
1917/01/25
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
to Carrie C. Catt re: women's suffrage
President Wilson expresses solidarity with the woman's suffrage movement. "I have a very real interest in the extension of the suffrage to the women, and I feel that every step in this direction should be applauded." Catt headed the influential...
GLC07144
3 July 1852
Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)
to Robert Adams
Thanks Adams, possibly an underground railroad conductor, for the invitation to Independence Day events at Fall River, Massachusetts, but cannot make it. Sends his sentiments instead which he calls trite but necessary. "Defenders of the...
GLC07356.01
30 May 1853
Smith, Gerrit (1797-1874)
to Lewis Hayden
He has been so busy getting his affairs in order to leave for Washington that he hasn't had time to reply to Hayden. Writes that Wendell Phillips properly named McLean when he called him the "Western Miscreant." Possibly refering to John McLean, an...
GLC07483.18
1848
The Black Code of the District of Columbia in Force September 1st, 1848
A compendium of the laws for slaves in Washington DC, The Black Code of the District of Columbia in Force September 1st, 1848, printed in New York by the Anti-Slavery Society.
GLC09401
August 1952
Students for Democratic Action
The Big Little Person's Book of Songs For Democratic Action
The book, published by the Students for Democratic Action (SDA), is a mix of common picketing and protest songs and original works by the author. The table of contents is ordered by genre of the song as follows: popular folk songs; old favorites; SDA...
GLC09590
11 February 1866
Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879)
to Henry Wilson
Replies to a letter Wilson wrote when Garrison discontinued publication of the Liberator, his anti-slavery newspaper. Writes that he so values Wilson's letter, he will ask his children to preserve it with other valuable autographs and memorials....
GLC08888
Purvis, Robert (1810-1898)
to Wendell P. Garrison
Answers questions about William Lloyd Garrison. Comments on his 1833 trip to England, at which time "he was indicted for a libel, by several of the persecutors, of Miss." Explains how he, Lewis Tappan, and others helped Garrison escape apprehension...
GLC08944
10 June 1862
to Aaron M. Powell
Discusses an abolitionist meeting he attended, where a memorial was drafted calling on President Lincoln to immediately abolish slavery. Now in New York, an "immense, dirty, bustling, turbulent city." Says of Theodore Tilton, one of his companions...
GLC08958
23 August 1935
Unknown
[Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the 1935 Bank Reform Act]
Also signed by ten other persons in the photograph, including Carter Glass and Henry Steagall. Shows Roosevelt sitting at his desk signing the act while the other ten men look on from behind.
GLC01094
26 October 1879
to Emily Collins
Offers his home as a place to stay during her attendance at the eleventh annual meeting of the American Woman Suffrage Association, to be held in District of Columbia in early January 1880. Emily Parmely Collins worked for women's rights in New York...
GLC01197
circa 1873
Dix, Dorothea Lynde (1802-1887)
to Charles Sumner
Written on her personal stationery, embossed with a "D," to her benefactor and friend, Sumner. Requests him to send certain government publications to her at the Government Hospital for the Insane of the Army and Navy in Washington, D.C. Among...
GLC02075
circa 1852
to T. P. Chandler
Writes about speaking in the Senate: "Had I made that speech, I would have taken a vacation of a week or more. Now I wait the Civil Appropriation Bill, when I shall move an Amendment, that nothing be paid [to] the execution of the Fug. Sl. Bill, but...
GLC02095.03
22 February 1857
to Azariah Smith
Thanks him for his letter. Plans to leave for Washington, D.C., "simply to vote" presumably in Senate. After Washington, Sumner plans to travel to Europe "in search of that complete restoration which I have not yet found at home."
GLC02095.05
18 May 1858
[Quotation of Charles Sumner on the struggle to end slavery]
Complete quotation reads: "Our cause is nobler even than that of our Fathers, in as much as it is more exalted to struggle for the Freedom of others than for our own."
GLC02095.26
13 March 1860
[Quotation of Charles Sumner on liberty]
Complete quotation reads: "And I cannot go wrong when I lean to the side of Liberty."
GLC02095.27
11 February 1864
[Quotation of Charles Sumner on freedom]
Complete quotation reads: "Freedom always for all!" Marked Senate Chamber.
GLC02095.28
6 January 1840
Fillmore, Millard (1800-1874)
to Solomon Haven
Discusses political and social news. Mentions that the state legislature will meet tomorrow and that there is a movement toward legal reform, which he feels in necessary. Briefly comments on national and state debts. Written as member of Congress.
GLC02344
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